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Lonely <I>Quigley</I> Turner

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Lonely Quigley Turner

Birth
Vernon Township, Crawford County, Pennsylvania, USA
Death
13 Dec 1854 (aged 49)
Crawford County, Pennsylvania, USA
Burial
Vernon Township, Crawford County, Pennsylvania, USA Add to Map
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From Find A Grave member Calcat
Lonely's children with David Rolph included: Mortimer, David Allen, Rosannah and Charles Rolph. Her children with Abraham Turner included: Orville, Oscar, Harriet, Ozaias, Amanda, Polk, Abraham and James Frank Turner. (Lonely's second husband, Abraham Turner, went on to have seven more children with his second wife, Eliza (Culver) Turner, who he married in 1855 after Lonely's death in 1854).

From the 1850 Federal Census
Abram H Turner 35
Lonely Turner 44
Mortimer M Ralph 22
Rosanna B Ralph 19
Charles B Ralph 17
Orville V Ralph 15
Oscar V Ralph 13
Harriet Ralph 11
Ozaias Ralph 10
Amanda M Turner 7
D D P P Turner 5 (David)
Abraham H Turner 3
Frank Turner 0
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This is an exert from the book 'MEADVILLE ~ Yesterday and Today' by Anne G Stewart and J. Randall Luvaas:

ROSANNAH MUSHRUSH
While the woods still were with sheltering Indians, Rosannah Mushrush was teaching at Evansburg (now Conneaut Lake). Her state of mind, when she gave birth to twins without benefit of clergy, is evidenced by the names she gave her daughters - Desolate and Lonely. The twins, who later became teachers at East Fallowfield, are buried in Watson Run Cemetery.
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From an unsourced citation at Ancestry:

Rosannah Mushrush was a triplet and never married John Quigley but he fathered her twin girls and was forced in a shotgun wedding to marry a woman in town. Rosannah, and her brother Michael, owned most of the town and brothels and supported most of the town people around Conneaut Lake Pa. She owned a large ranch outside of town also and employed many town people there. She was a slip of a woman but could throw a man over a barbed wire fence by the seat of his pants if she was ired by one and was known to. Her daughters and John Quigley were school teachers in town. Lonely froze to death in a blizzard and was not found until spring. Rosanna was always leaving her satchel at the train station and newspaper articles placed reward for the return of them. She also placed an ad for a reward for the persons responsible for burning her fences and barn.
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From an unsourced citation at Ancestry:

An interesting bit of family history may be told in connection with the mothers peculiar name. The grandmother, Rosa Mushrush, came with her brother Michael from Germany and settled near Meadville, where each secured seven hundred acres of land. Here she married, soon after which her husband, Mr. Quigley, disappeared. During this period in her grief she so frequently exclaimed, "I am so lonely and desolate!" and when twins were born, she named them Mary Lonely and Nancy Desolate. When of school age, she took them on horseback through the trackless wilderness a hundred miles to Pittsburgh while she and their Uncle Michael walked and left them at a convent until they were fifteen years of age. Not seeing them during these years, on their return home Desolate taught school eleven years, until her marriage at the age of twenty-six, on her birthday, April 1. She died in April 1890, at the age of eighty-five.

(Additional information regarding this unsourced citation from Find A Grave member Marcy Thomas)

Compendium of History, Reminiscence, and Biography of Nebraska: Containing a History of the State of Nebraska ... Also a Compendium of Reminiscence and Biography Containing Biographical Sketches of Hundreds of Prominent Old Settlers and Representative Citizens of Nebraska. Chicago: Alden Publishing Company, 1912. Digital. Page 936.

Contributor: Marcy Thomas (49477747)
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From Find A Grave member CalCat
Mary Lonely Quigley was married first to David Ralph (1807-1834) on September 25, 1827 in Fallowfield, Crawford, Pennsylvania. Married second to Abraham H. Turner (1811-1874). Lonely was the mother of at least four children with David Ralph and eight children with Abraham Turner.
PLEASE SCROLL DOWN FOR A LOT OF INFORMATION FROM VARIOUS Find A Grave MEMBERS AND THEIR CONTRIBUTIONS

From Find A Grave member Calcat
Lonely's children with David Rolph included: Mortimer, David Allen, Rosannah and Charles Rolph. Her children with Abraham Turner included: Orville, Oscar, Harriet, Ozaias, Amanda, Polk, Abraham and James Frank Turner. (Lonely's second husband, Abraham Turner, went on to have seven more children with his second wife, Eliza (Culver) Turner, who he married in 1855 after Lonely's death in 1854).

From the 1850 Federal Census
Abram H Turner 35
Lonely Turner 44
Mortimer M Ralph 22
Rosanna B Ralph 19
Charles B Ralph 17
Orville V Ralph 15
Oscar V Ralph 13
Harriet Ralph 11
Ozaias Ralph 10
Amanda M Turner 7
D D P P Turner 5 (David)
Abraham H Turner 3
Frank Turner 0
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This is an exert from the book 'MEADVILLE ~ Yesterday and Today' by Anne G Stewart and J. Randall Luvaas:

ROSANNAH MUSHRUSH
While the woods still were with sheltering Indians, Rosannah Mushrush was teaching at Evansburg (now Conneaut Lake). Her state of mind, when she gave birth to twins without benefit of clergy, is evidenced by the names she gave her daughters - Desolate and Lonely. The twins, who later became teachers at East Fallowfield, are buried in Watson Run Cemetery.
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From an unsourced citation at Ancestry:

Rosannah Mushrush was a triplet and never married John Quigley but he fathered her twin girls and was forced in a shotgun wedding to marry a woman in town. Rosannah, and her brother Michael, owned most of the town and brothels and supported most of the town people around Conneaut Lake Pa. She owned a large ranch outside of town also and employed many town people there. She was a slip of a woman but could throw a man over a barbed wire fence by the seat of his pants if she was ired by one and was known to. Her daughters and John Quigley were school teachers in town. Lonely froze to death in a blizzard and was not found until spring. Rosanna was always leaving her satchel at the train station and newspaper articles placed reward for the return of them. She also placed an ad for a reward for the persons responsible for burning her fences and barn.
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From an unsourced citation at Ancestry:

An interesting bit of family history may be told in connection with the mothers peculiar name. The grandmother, Rosa Mushrush, came with her brother Michael from Germany and settled near Meadville, where each secured seven hundred acres of land. Here she married, soon after which her husband, Mr. Quigley, disappeared. During this period in her grief she so frequently exclaimed, "I am so lonely and desolate!" and when twins were born, she named them Mary Lonely and Nancy Desolate. When of school age, she took them on horseback through the trackless wilderness a hundred miles to Pittsburgh while she and their Uncle Michael walked and left them at a convent until they were fifteen years of age. Not seeing them during these years, on their return home Desolate taught school eleven years, until her marriage at the age of twenty-six, on her birthday, April 1. She died in April 1890, at the age of eighty-five.

(Additional information regarding this unsourced citation from Find A Grave member Marcy Thomas)

Compendium of History, Reminiscence, and Biography of Nebraska: Containing a History of the State of Nebraska ... Also a Compendium of Reminiscence and Biography Containing Biographical Sketches of Hundreds of Prominent Old Settlers and Representative Citizens of Nebraska. Chicago: Alden Publishing Company, 1912. Digital. Page 936.

Contributor: Marcy Thomas (49477747)
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From Find A Grave member CalCat
Mary Lonely Quigley was married first to David Ralph (1807-1834) on September 25, 1827 in Fallowfield, Crawford, Pennsylvania. Married second to Abraham H. Turner (1811-1874). Lonely was the mother of at least four children with David Ralph and eight children with Abraham Turner.


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  • Created by: FutureAncestor
  • Added: Jan 7, 2014
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  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/122929994/lonely-turner: accessed ), memorial page for Lonely Quigley Turner (1 Apr 1805–13 Dec 1854), Find a Grave Memorial ID 122929994, citing Watson Run Cemetery, Vernon Township, Crawford County, Pennsylvania, USA; Maintained by FutureAncestor (contributor 47459333).